What's the difference between legist and legit?

Legist


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the medico-legal point of view the problems must be treated in relation to the provisions of criminal law which constitute the physician's legistic field of tension in the situations at issue.

Legit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I got to hear that NI had called it legit too, by that stage I'd entered 'what the hell' territory and thought I'd just carry on and see where it went, seeing as Twitter had already verified it.
  • (2) (Not that his prospects for winning were any good – an actual, legit poll has Corbett down 17% with less than a month before Election Day .)
  • (3) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
  • (4) We fact-checked, it was all legit …" he trails off.
  • (5) The choice between pirated and legit content is a combination of ease-of-use, pricing and availability on a given market.
  • (6) Now, if it was Phoenix, Winnipeg, Edmonton, etc... yeah, legit "argument".
  • (7) Photograph: Rex Features The 90s hip-hop star who gave us songs like Can't Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit has been in the tech investment game for some time, although he hasn't had much luck.
  • (8) He reportedly turned down an invitation to host NBC’s Meet the Press , so it’s unlikely that he will want to provide jokes on a more “legit” broadcast, and certainly not one mired in a scandal.
  • (9) January 10, 2017 “Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing that might or might not be true, without supporting evidence; decide for yourself if it’s legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today.
  • (10) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
  • (11) It looks legit to us," CIA spokesperson Marie Harf says in an email.
  • (12) Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something "meaningful" arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true.
  • (13) "Totally legal and legit and my accountants and advisers would take care to complete the formalities which included dealing with HMRC.
  • (14) If you think the very concept of marriage is hot garbage, that’s legit.
  • (15) Some television angles, however, suggest that his feet were legit, with only his jutting torso breaching the rules, and no linesman should raise the flag for that.
  • (16) In a statement on her website after it emerged that she was one of a number of well-known names who were part of the Liberty tax scheme, she said it was presented to her by financial advisers in 2008 as "legal and legit".
  • (17) The online portal continues: While the process of registering the flight numbers of crashed aircraft might be completely legit, and Seyefull Investments Ltd might actually succeed in their attempt to make money off any mention of "MH17" and "MH370", it still remains a fact that this is an ugly, opportunistic attempt at cashing in on the suffering and pain of thousands of grieving family members and millions of people worldwide - not to mention the ended lives of the hundreds of people on board both doomed jetliners.
  • (18) The abandonment of the Production Code in 1968 opened the floodgates for sex to migrate from dirty theatres to more legit venues.
  • (19) Leaning against the wall outside the job centre in an Islington side street the 28-year-old, who lost his position as a security guard at Tesco a year ago, said: "If people can't get money in a legit way they are going to get it in a non-legit way, 100%."
  • (20) My initial response was to tweet: “Fit model is a legit job that needs specific body dimensions.

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